[TR: Interviews were stamped at left side with
state name, date, and interviewer’s name.
These stamps were often partially cut off. Where
month could not be determined [—­] substituted.
Interviewers’ names reconstructed from other,
complete entries.]

Aunt Lucy, an ex-slave, lives with her son, Lafayette
Brooks, in a shack on the Carroll Inn Springs property
at Forest Glen, Montgomery County, Md.

To go to her home from Rockville, leave the Court
House going east on Montgomery Ave. and follow us
Highway No. 240, otherwise known as the Rockville
Pike, in its southeasterly direction, four and one
half miles to the junction with it on the left (east)
of the Garrett Park Road. This junction is directly
opposite the entrance to the Georgetown Preparatory
School, which is on the west of this road. Turn
left on the Garrett Park Road and follow it through
that place and crossing Rock Creek go to Kensington.
Here cross the tracks of the B.&O. R.R. and parallel
them onward to Forest Glen. From the railroad
station in this place go onward to Forest Glen.
From the railroad station in this place go onward
on the same road to the third lane branching off to
the left. This lane will be identified by the
sign “Carroll Springs Inn”. Turn
left here and enter the grounds of the inn. But
do not go up in front of the inn itself which is one
quarter of a mile from the road. Instead, where
the drive swings to the right to go to the inn, bear
to the left and continue downward fifty yards toward
the swimming pool. Lucy’s shack is on the
left and one hundred feet west of the pool. It
is about eleven miles from Rockville.

Lucy is an usual type of Negro and most probably is
a descendant of less remotely removed African ancestors
than the average plantation Negroes. She does
not appear to be a mixed blood—­a good guess
would be that she is pure blooded Senegambian.
She is tall and very thin, and considering her evident
great age, very erect, her head is very broad, overhanging
ears, her forehead broad and not so receeding as that
of the average. Her eyes are wide apart and are
bright and keen. She has no defect in hearing.